Welcome, welcome
family, welcome guests.
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We also want to
shout out to the students
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who have joined us
today for music fest.
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But at this moment, I want
you to turn to your neighbor
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to your left or to
your right and embrace them.
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Give them a
handshake, give them a hug
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and tell them I love you.
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Tell them I love you.
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I love you.
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Now that our hearts are
warmed with the Holy Spirit,
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please join us
for our opening hymns,
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"The Lord is my Light".
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The Lord is my light,
then why should I fear?
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By day and by night
His presence is near
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He is my salvation
from sorrow and sin
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This blessed
persuasion the Spirit brings in
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The Lord is my
light, my joy, and my song
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By day and by
night He leads me along
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The Lord is my
light, my joy, and my song
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By day and by
night He leads me along
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All hail the
power of Jesus' Name
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Let angels prostrate fall
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Bring forth the royal diadem
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And crown Him Lord of all
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Bring forth the royal diadem
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And crown Him Lord of all
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Let every kindred, every tribe
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On this terrestrial ball
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To Him all majesty ascribe
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And crown Him Lord of all
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To Him all majesty ascribe
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And crown Him Lord of all
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Oh, that with
yonder scared throng
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We at His feet may fall
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Join in the everlasting song
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And crown Him Lord of all
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Join in the everlasting song
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And crown Him Lord of all
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Amen.
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Let us open up our hearts.
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I stand before You now
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The greatness of your renown
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I have heard of the
majesty and wonder of you
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King of Heaven,
in humility, I bow
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As Your love, in wave after wave
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Crashes over me
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Crashes over me
For You are for us
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You are not against us
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Champion of Heaven
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You made a way
for all to enter in
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You make me brave
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You make me brave
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You call me out beyond
the shore Into the waves
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You make me brave
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You make me brave
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No fear can hinder
now The promises you made
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You make me brave
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You make me brave
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No fear can hinder
now The promises you made
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Because Your
love, in wave after wave
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Crashes over me
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Crashes over me
For You are for us
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You are not against
us Champion of Heaven
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You made a way
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Because Your
love, in wave after wave
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Crashes over me
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Crashes over me
For You are for us
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You are not against
us Champion of Heaven
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You made a way
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Champion of Heaven
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You made a way
for all to enter in
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As morning dawns
and evening fades
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You inspire songs of praise
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That rise from
earth to touch Your heart
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And glorify Your Name
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Your Name is a
strong and mighty tower
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Your Name is a
shelter like no other
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Your Name, let the
nations sing it louder
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'Cause nothing
has the power to save
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Your Name is a
strong and mighty tower
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Your Name is a
shelter like no other
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Your Name, let the
nations sing it louder
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'Cause nothing
has the power to save
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But Your Name
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Your Name
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This is my Father's world
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And to my listening ears
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All nature sings,
and round me rings
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The music of the spheres
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This is my Father's world
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I rest me in the thought
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Of rocks and
trees, of skies and seas
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His hand the wonders wrought
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This is my Father's world
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The birds their carols raise
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The morning
light, the lily white
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Declare their Maker's praise
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This is my Father's world
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He shines in all that's fair
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In the rustling
grass I hear Him pass
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He speaks to me everywhere
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This is my Father's world
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O let me ne'er forget
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That though the
wrong seems of so strong
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God is the Ruler yet
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This is my Father's world
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Why should my heart be sad?
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The Lord is King
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Let the heavens ring!
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Let the heavens ring!
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God reigns, let the earth
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Be glad!
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The Lord is in this place
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Amen.
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Let's pray.
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Oh God, what this
choir just sang set us up.
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You knew it would.
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Dear Father, You also know this
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is the most important message
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some here will ever hear.
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You know who is
here to distract us.
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But we know who is here
through His Spirit to make sure
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that we get the truth.
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Have Your way,
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I humbly pray
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in Jesus' name, amen.
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Have you ever seen the picture
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of what they're calling
the dirtiest man in the world?
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Put it on the screen for you.
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You see him
there 80 years of age
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that's Amou Haji, a
hermit in South Iran,
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who has gone 60
years without a bath
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and never got married.
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There may be a
correlation between the two,
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leading the London
Daily News to call him
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the world's most
ineligible bachelor.
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But hold on, hold on to
that picture in your mind
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because you're about to see.
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Hands down, the dirtiest of all.
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Open your Bible with me please
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to the little Old
Testament Book of Zachariah,
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next to the last
book in the Old Testament
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just before Malachi
which is just before Matthew.
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I need you to see it in
your Bible, Zachariah 3,
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Zechariah 3.
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You didn't...
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bring a Bible.
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Grab the pew
Bible in front of you,
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it will be page 637,
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while the ushers
are coming your way
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because this
study guide is a keeper.
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Don't be
intimidated by this study guide.
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We fly through it but
I want you to have it,
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I want you to
study way beyond today.
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What you're about to hear,
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may be the first
time you heard it.
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You need to get it.
Hang on to the study guide.
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You think, did you get up,
get him up here in the choir
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and the orchestra, good.
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All right. So ushers are coming.
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Those are you watching
right now live streaming,
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glad to have you, you
already at the website,
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get the study
guide, most of you are used
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to getting that study guide
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if you're
watching now on television.
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Go to our website,
it's on the screen for you
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www.newperceptions.tv.
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You're looking
for a little series
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that ends right now,
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"Charmed into Righteousness",
title of this final teaching,
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"The Most Righteous Lord".
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Click on to that,
you'll have the study guide.
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And I believe, it's a keeper.
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So let's go, Zachariah 3.
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I'm in the New
International Version.
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We begin in
verse 1, "Then he..."
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So Zachariah's
envision, "Then he, the angel,
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showed me Joshua the high priest
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standing before the
angel of the Lord..."
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Now, angel of the
Lord is code language
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in the Old Testament for
the pre-incarnate Christ,
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all right, so
that's just a hidden clue
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within the story.
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So "He showed me
Joshua the high priest
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standing before
the angel of the Lord,
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and Satan..."
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Okay, we know him.
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But in the Hebrew
it reads "The Satan".
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The article is there,
Satan means adversary.
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We've just taken a noun
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and given that
made it a proper noun
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but The Satan, "Satan,
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He sees standing
at his right side."
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Oh, the side of favor,
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this is where our friend stands,
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always on the right side.
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So now we know we've
got an imposter here,
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who is trying to make
you feel bad, all right.
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So he's standing at
the right side of Joshua
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to accuse him.
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Now verse 2.
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The Lord said to
Satan, the Satan,
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the Lord said to Satan,
"The Lord rebuke you, Satan!
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The Lord, who has
chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you!
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Is this man not a burning
stick snatched from the fire?"
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Now Joshua was
dressed in filthy clothes
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as he stood before the angel."
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What's going on here?
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We need a line from Isaiah.
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So grab your study guide now,
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because here's where you
gonna have writer's cramp
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by the time you're through
but that's okay, Isaiah 64:6.
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Put it on the screen for you.
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"All of us have become
like one who is unclean,
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and all our righteous
acts are like filthy rags..."
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Write in the word filthy.
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"We all shrivel up like a leaf,
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and like the wind
our sins sweep us away."
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All of our righteousness,
all of our right doing,
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our right behaving,
our right believing,
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our right thinking,
put it all together,
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it's like filthy rags.
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And the Prophet Isaiah
chooses a rather graphic word.
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He says, "It's
like a menstrual rag."
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Actual Hebrew, that's the word.
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When I was young, I
came to this parish.
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In the first
season of preaching,
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I happened to
quote this very text.
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I was naive at the time.
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I got a postcard,
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an anonymous postcard
the next week from a woman.
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It was written on a typewriter.
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You know what typewriter? Okay.
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It was written on it.
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It was written on a
typewriter in all caps
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and it said something like this.
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"May I remind you,
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that the male issue
is not so septic either."
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Say I didn't realize
how politically correct
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you have to be
when you're on a campus.
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But that is
precisely the prophet's point.
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Whether it's the
male issue of semen
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or the woman's issue of blood,
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you're un-cleaning them
and a Levitical code says,
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"It will take a sacrifice
to get you clean again.
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Some sacrifice
will have to deliver you
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from that un-cleanliness."
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That the old
prophet says is what
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all of our righteousness
put together amounts to
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filthy, filthy rags.
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We're not any
better than Joshua,
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the high priest, let's go.
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Verse 3, read it
again, "Now Joshua was dressed
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in filthy clothes as
he stood before the angel.
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And the angel said to those
who were standing before him,
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'Take off his filthy clothes.'
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Then he said to Joshua, 'See,
I have taken away your sin,
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and I will put
fine garments on you.'
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Then I said, "Put a
clean turban on his head.'
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So they put a clean turban
on his head and clothed him,
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while the angel of
the Lord stood by."
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Approving of what
has just transpired.
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Now what's happening?
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Let's go back to the same Isaiah
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who got us in
trouble with filthy rags.
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And notice another verse,
Isaiah 61:10, jot it down.
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"I delight greatly in the Lord,
my soul rejoices in my God.
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For he has clothed me
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with the
garments of salvation..."
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Write that down.
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"He has clothed me with
the garments of salvation
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and arrayed me in a
robe of righteousness,
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as a bridegroom adorns
his head like a priest,
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and as a bride
adorns herself with jewels."
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Joshua the high priest,
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the representative of Jerusalem,
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the representative of Israel,
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the representative of
the whole world you and me.
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Joshua, the high priest
stands condemned before God
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in filthy rags but
the command goes for,
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stop, time out,
rip off those rags,
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put on this
glorious robe instead.
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What's happening here?
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Ellen White in that
little classic Thoughts
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from the Mount of Blessing.
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Put it on the
screen for you, fill it in,
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"Whatever may have
been your past experience,
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however discouraging
your present circumstances,
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if you will come to Jesus
just as you are" right now
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in this worship service
watching him live streaming,
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"If you will come to
Jesus just as you are, weak,
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helpless, and despairing,
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our compassionate
Savior will meet you
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a great way off..."
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Now, that's a line
pulled right out of
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the Prodigal Son
story, "A great way off,
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he will meet you, and
he will throw about you
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His arms of
love and His robe..."
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Write that in and "His
robe of righteousness."
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What is that robe like?
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Keep reading, "He presents
us to the Father clothed
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in the white raiment
of His own character."
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That's the robe,
it's his character.
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He wraps it around us.
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"He pleads before
God in our behalf saying:
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I have taken the sinner's place.
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Look not upon
this wayward child,
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but look on Me.
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Does Satan plead
loudly against our souls,
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accusing of sin, and
claiming us as his prey,
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the blood of Christ
pleads with greater power.
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Hallelujah."
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It's no wonder, Christ is called
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but He's called in this book.
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Jot them down now.
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Here they come 1 John
2:1 "My little children,
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these things I write to
you, so that you may not sin.
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And if anyone sins, we have
an Advocate with the Father,
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Jesus Christ the righteous."
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The righteous, so they call him.
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He's the
righteous one. Keep writing.
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Jeremiah 23:6,
"Now this is His name."
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This descendant from David.
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"This is his name by
which He will be called:
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The Lord Our..."
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All caps in most
translations, the Lord our,
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what's that next word?
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"RIGHTEOUSNESS."
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Paul says, "That's what
I'm trying to tell you,"
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1 Corinthians 1:30.
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"It is because of God
that you are in Christ,
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who has become for
us wisdom from God."
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What do you mean Paul?
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That is, "He has
become our righteousness,
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our holiness
and our redemption."
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Ladies and gentlemen,
it is inescapably clear
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that for John and
Jeremiah and Paul,
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the driving point
they make inescapable.
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Is it Christ is
our righteousness?
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Write that down. He
is our righteousness.
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Whatever righteousness means,
we haven't even defined it yet,
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but whatever it
means, it's Jesus.
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Whatever it is, it's Jesus.
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So what is this rather archaic
word righteousness, righteous?
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What does it mean
for us third millennials?
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Come on, nobody uses
it in language today.
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So what's it mean?
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Let's turn to
one of the renowned
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New Testament scholars
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who happens to teach at a place
called St. Andrews University.
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Not to be confused
with Andrews University,
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St. Andrews is in Scotland.
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Karen and I walked over
that beautiful village campus
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right by the sea.
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His name is N. T. Wright.
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He's written a
book, Justification:
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God's Plan and Paul's Vision.
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Now, listen, Wright defines
God's righteousness this way.
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Get it down.
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Jot it down in your study guide.
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"God's righteousness
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is an outward looking
characteristic of God,
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linked of course to the
concern for God's own glory
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but essentially
going, as it were,
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in the opposite direction,
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that of God's creative,
healing, restorative love."
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Keep reading, "God's
concern for God's glory
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is precisely rescued
from the appearance of
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divine narcissism because
God, not least God in Trinity,
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is always giving out,
he's always pouring out,
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lavishing generous
love on undeserving people,
00:26:08.03\00:26:11.63
undeserving Israel
and an undeserving world.
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That is a sort of God he is,
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and 'God's righteousness'
is a way of saying, 'Yes,
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and God will be
true to that character."
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That's what God is,
you got it there, boy.
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That's it right there
what you've described.
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That's God's righteousness.
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In other words, God will
be faithful to who he is.
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He'll be a righteous God,
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who loves an undeserving world
of sinners like you and me.
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He said, you can count on
me undergirding every promise
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I made, I'm staying with you.
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Every promise I made, I have
founded on my righteousness,
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you're okay.
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Wright continues, jot it down,
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"God's righteousness is
that quality or attribute
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because of which he saves."
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Is who he is, and
it's because I am who I am
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that I can save you.
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He saves his people,
"His 'acts of righteousness'
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are thus the acts he
performs as outworkings
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or demonstrations of
his covenant faithfulness."
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It is who, I am who I am.
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Righteousness is who I am.
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But it's a wonderful, it's
a wonderful characteristic,
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an attribute to God.
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Oh, by the way
though, don't be fooled.
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Don't think there
is another side to this
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come on, come on.
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God, what's God
going to do with evil?
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Oh, He's going to
curse it, watch this.
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Wright keeps going, jot it down.
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"Indeed, it's
because God will be true
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to that outward facing
generous, creative love."
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Now here comes, it's kind of
a down and out but watch this,
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"That he must also
curse those ways of life,
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particularly those ways of
life within his covenant people,
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which embody and
express the opposite
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of his creative
love and therefore
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he must curse everything
that thwarts and destroys
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the blessing of his
world and his people."
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So listen,
guys, here's the deal.
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While it's true,
there is a soft side
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to divine righteousness.
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Both the Old
Testament and the New Testament
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depict a very fiery
side to God's righteousness.
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It's called his
righteous indignation,
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you heard that?
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His wrath.
What's the wrath about?
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It is His, it is His
hot passion against sin,
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against evil, against darkness.
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And if I choose to
hang on to that sin.
00:28:25.77\00:28:30.71
If I choose to hang
on to that darkness,
00:28:30.74\00:28:33.07
if I embrace that
evil, what I've done is
00:28:33.11\00:28:37.45
I have essentially
erected this massive wall
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between me and my darkness.
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And this God who says,
"My righteousness is holy,
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it's pure, it's
loving, I'm everything,
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I'm everything you want."
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But this wall,
how can I get through?
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What's a good God to do?
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I want to bless
her, I want to bless him
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but the wall,
they're hanging on,
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Dwight's hanging
on to this thing.
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What he has to
do? What he has to do?
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He's got to find a
way to woo you and me
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away from our self-destruction.
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It eventually kill me.
00:29:10.15\00:29:12.31
If I embrace
this, what I'm doing,
00:29:12.35\00:29:14.38
it will eventually kill me.
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John 3:16 come
on, you know this,
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"For God so loved the world
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that He gave His
one and only Son,
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that whoever believes
in Him should not perish
00:29:23.02\00:29:24.86
but have everlasting life."
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Brothers and
sisters, come on this,
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this is what's
called the good news,
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this is the good
news of the gospel.
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It's what we just talked about.
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It's about God
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with His
righteousness loving run away
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and rebel
children like you and me.
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In fact, it says,
God is the one who create
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the entire universe
who step forward one day
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and said, I'll be the one.
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I will go.
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Let me infiltrate their world.
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Let me become one with them.
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And so, Christ the
Creator, He comes down.
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Jot this down, 1
Timothy 1:15 he came down here
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and "Here is a
trustworthy saying
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that deserves full acceptance:
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Christ Jesus came into the world
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to save sinners of
whom I am the worst."
00:30:05.87\00:30:10.14
Sow gospel, that's
why He came to save us,
00:30:10.17\00:30:12.24
in spite of the
wall that we've erected.
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Keep reading.
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Romans 3:25 and 26,
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"God presented Christ as
a sacrifice of atonement..."
00:30:18.21\00:30:21.15
There's Calvary for you.
00:30:21.18\00:30:22.52
There's the cross, "Through
the shedding of his blood,
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to be received by faith.
00:30:25.69\00:30:27.09
He did this to
demonstrate His righteousness."
00:30:27.12\00:30:29.72
Oh-oh, here comes.
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"His righteousness
so as to be just..."
00:30:31.13\00:30:33.46
He has to be true
to Himself and His law.
00:30:33.50\00:30:35.76
"And yet the one who justifies,
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the one who saves those
who have faith in Jesus."
00:30:37.77\00:30:42.04
So how does this
righteous God pull it off?
00:30:42.07\00:30:43.91
Jot it down, 2 Corinthians
5:14 and then verse 21.
00:30:43.94\00:30:48.94
"For Christ's
love compels us..."
00:30:48.98\00:30:51.95
The persuasive
force of divine love.
00:30:51.98\00:30:53.82
"For Christ's love compels us,
because we are convinced that
00:30:53.85\00:30:57.02
one died for all,
and therefore all died.
00:30:57.05\00:31:03.06
God made him, Christ,
00:31:03.09\00:31:04.66
who had no sin to be sin for us,
00:31:04.69\00:31:06.53
so that in Christ
we might become..."
00:31:06.56\00:31:09.70
Here it is, "The
righteousness of God."
00:31:09.73\00:31:14.67
You get what's happened in here.
00:31:14.70\00:31:16.04
God has set up this
00:31:16.07\00:31:17.41
massive intergalactic
celestial exchange.
00:31:17.44\00:31:21.98
Captured by
these well-known words
00:31:22.01\00:31:23.38
in Desire of Ages.
00:31:23.41\00:31:26.15
Desire of Ages on
the screen for you,
00:31:26.18\00:31:27.62
"Christ was
treated as we deserve,
00:31:27.65\00:31:30.82
that we might be
treated as He deserves.
00:31:30.85\00:31:33.82
He was condemned for our sins,
00:31:33.86\00:31:38.63
in which He had no share,
00:31:38.66\00:31:43.70
that we might be
justified by His righteousness,
00:31:43.73\00:31:46.77
in which we had no share.
00:31:46.80\00:31:49.10
He suffered the
death which was ours,
00:31:49.14\00:31:51.57
that we might receive
the life which was His.
00:31:51.61\00:31:54.68
'With His
stripes we are healed."
00:31:54.71\00:31:57.35
Isaiah, Isaiah 53.
00:31:57.38\00:32:00.05
So that's a
righteousness of God.
00:32:00.08\00:32:01.42
But here's a question
that begs to be asked.
00:32:01.45\00:32:02.85
Okay, so I
understand it's about God.
00:32:02.88\00:32:04.69
But what does this righteousness
00:32:04.72\00:32:06.05
have to do with me?
00:32:06.09\00:32:08.02
What happens in me
with this righteousness?
00:32:08.06\00:32:10.73
Critical question.
We've got to answer it.
00:32:10.76\00:32:12.96
Romans 5:19,
00:32:12.99\00:32:14.80
I want you to
read it on the screen.
00:32:14.83\00:32:16.16
I want you to find
it first in your Bible,
00:32:16.20\00:32:17.53
Romans 5, the great,
00:32:17.57\00:32:21.24
the great pinnacle of
salvation and righteousness
00:32:21.27\00:32:27.24
by faith in scripture, Romans 5.
00:32:27.28\00:32:31.78
I want you...
00:32:31.81\00:32:33.15
Let's read the verse 19,
00:32:33.18\00:32:35.85
find it on your tablet or
cell, that's fine, Romans 5:19,
00:32:35.88\00:32:41.16
"For just as through the
disobedience of the one man
00:32:41.19\00:32:44.49
the many were made sinners,
00:32:44.53\00:32:45.86
so also through the
obedience of the one man
00:32:45.89\00:32:49.20
the many will
be made righteous."
00:32:49.23\00:32:51.07
Now, what's going on here?
00:32:51.10\00:32:52.47
Jot it down in
your study guide please.
00:32:52.50\00:32:55.30
It repeats, "For justice
00:32:55.34\00:32:57.37
through the
disobedience of the one man..."
00:32:57.41\00:32:58.87
That would be Adam, okay.
00:32:58.91\00:33:01.34
"The many were made sinners,
00:33:01.38\00:33:03.31
so also through the
obedience of the one man..."
00:33:03.35\00:33:05.91
That would be Christ.
00:33:05.95\00:33:07.32
"The many will
be made righteous."
00:33:07.35\00:33:10.52
So something
starts happening to us,
00:33:10.55\00:33:12.45
that will concern
this righteousness as well.
00:33:12.49\00:33:14.99
To illustrate
it, N.T Wright says,
00:33:15.02\00:33:17.16
I want to tell you a story.
00:33:17.19\00:33:18.63
It's a fictitious
story but it helps.
00:33:18.66\00:33:21.93
Here's a story,
put it on the screen.
00:33:21.96\00:33:23.30
"The language of 'righteousness'
00:33:23.33\00:33:24.67
in the Old
Testament regularly refused,
00:33:24.70\00:33:26.90
refers rather to the lawcourt,
00:33:26.94\00:33:29.17
or the quasi
lawcourt situation."
00:33:29.20\00:33:31.07
So here comes a story,
00:33:31.11\00:33:32.44
"Let's imagine a
fictitious scenario
00:33:32.47\00:33:34.04
in ancient Israel.
00:33:34.08\00:33:35.64
Azariah..."
Okay, two, two Hebrews.
00:33:35.68\00:33:38.21
"Two men, man named
Azariah, man named, Bildad,
00:33:38.25\00:33:41.18
go to the law before Gamaliel,
who is acting as a judge.
00:33:41.22\00:33:43.99
Now Azariah is accusing Bildad
00:33:44.02\00:33:46.15
of having stolen
one of his sheep."
00:33:46.19\00:33:47.56
This guy stole one of my sheep.
To bring justice out of this.
00:33:47.59\00:33:50.93
So, "Gamaliel hears the case
00:33:50.96\00:33:54.63
and he finds in favor
of Bildad: he didn't steal.
00:33:54.66\00:33:58.10
The court declares that
the accusation is unfounded
00:33:58.13\00:34:01.10
and that Bildad is innocent."
00:34:01.14\00:34:03.37
Now hold on, this is really,
00:34:03.41\00:34:05.31
this is a piece
you've got to get,
00:34:05.34\00:34:07.04
"That 'finding in
favor,' that declaration,
00:34:07.08\00:34:10.98
is called 'justification'..."
00:34:11.01\00:34:13.08
Now that's a long
word but write it down,
00:34:13.11\00:34:14.92
justification.
00:34:14.95\00:34:16.65
That's what the Bible says,
00:34:16.69\00:34:18.55
it's a court term justification.
00:34:18.59\00:34:21.02
Well, what does
justification mean?
00:34:21.06\00:34:22.39
Keep reading,
"Its result is that
00:34:22.42\00:34:24.86
Bildad is now 'righteous'...
00:34:24.89\00:34:26.63
He's considered righteous.
That is 'in the right'.
00:34:26.66\00:34:31.60
Oh, that helps 'in the right'.
00:34:31.63\00:34:34.94
"He is in other words
the vindicated defendant."
00:34:34.97\00:34:38.81
And that's what
Romans 5 is describing
00:34:38.84\00:34:43.41
has happened to you
and me, justification.
00:34:43.45\00:34:46.82
In fact, I want you
to see this, this is we,
00:34:46.85\00:34:49.62
we left out verse 18 on purpose,
00:34:49.65\00:34:51.19
go back to verse 18.
00:34:51.22\00:34:53.56
"Consequently,
just as one trespass
00:34:53.59\00:34:56.32
resulted in
condemnation for all people..."
00:34:56.36\00:34:58.56
That would be Adam sin.
00:34:58.59\00:34:59.93
"So also one righteous
act resulted in justification
00:34:59.96\00:35:03.10
and life for all people."
00:35:03.13\00:35:04.63
Thanks to the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:35:04.67\00:35:06.10
Come on, you know
this, because of Adam's sin,
00:35:06.13\00:35:08.37
the entire human
race is declared fallen.
00:35:08.40\00:35:11.07
And every human
being including you and me
00:35:11.11\00:35:13.51
born into this race, tragically,
00:35:13.54\00:35:15.84
we participate
in that fallenness.
00:35:15.88\00:35:17.65
Not because of
Adam but because of us,
00:35:17.68\00:35:20.12
we go the same path.
00:35:20.15\00:35:21.98
Our only hope is that
somewhere in the universe,
00:35:22.02\00:35:25.32
somebody might
find a second Adam.
00:35:25.35\00:35:28.62
Another Adam to come down here,
00:35:28.66\00:35:30.26
go over the very
ground where we keep falling.
00:35:30.29\00:35:33.43
But now, do it without falling
with radical faith in God,
00:35:33.46\00:35:39.37
and a spotless righteousness
00:35:39.40\00:35:42.60
and that,
00:35:42.64\00:35:45.11
that is what
Romans 5:18 is declaring.
00:35:45.14\00:35:47.94
Somebody was found,
obviously this is the good news.
00:35:47.98\00:35:51.38
Christ, the
righteous one has come.
00:35:51.41\00:35:53.15
And in our humanity, and
by the way in our humanity,
00:35:53.18\00:35:59.09
holding on to his
father for dear life.
00:35:59.12\00:36:02.66
He whooped the
devil on his own ground.
00:36:02.69\00:36:05.19
He won,
00:36:05.23\00:36:06.96
burying our sins to His death.
00:36:07.00\00:36:11.90
Should have been our death.
00:36:11.93\00:36:13.27
He dies in our place.
00:36:13.30\00:36:16.37
Jot it down.
00:36:16.40\00:36:17.74
Oh, you've got to get this,
Romans 5:18, don't miss this,
00:36:17.77\00:36:19.67
"One righteous act resulted..."
00:36:19.71\00:36:21.81
We just read this.
00:36:21.84\00:36:23.18
"One righteous act
resulted in justification
00:36:23.21\00:36:26.18
and life for all people."
00:36:26.21\00:36:29.72
You know what that means?
00:36:29.75\00:36:31.09
Oh, is it, by the
way how many people,
00:36:31.12\00:36:32.45
how many people?
00:36:32.49\00:36:33.82
Half the people?
Three quarters of people?
00:36:33.86\00:36:35.42
How many of the
human race, how many?
00:36:35.46\00:36:37.03
What does this say?
00:36:37.06\00:36:38.39
All the human race has stepped
00:36:38.43\00:36:40.70
into the courtroom of
the eternal as it were
00:36:40.73\00:36:43.87
and God has
brought that gavel down
00:36:43.90\00:36:45.37
and he's declared,
because of that death.
00:36:45.40\00:36:48.20
Because of His death,
00:36:48.24\00:36:50.41
I declare the entire
human race acquitted.
00:36:50.44\00:36:53.14
Everybody's pardoned.
00:36:53.17\00:36:54.51
Everybody is forgiven right now
00:36:54.54\00:36:58.81
because of the second
Adam, who came in our place.
00:36:58.85\00:37:03.72
Oh...
00:37:03.75\00:37:06.32
Through the death of Jesus,
00:37:06.35\00:37:08.52
God has justified
the entire human race.
00:37:08.56\00:37:12.09
Now, that concept
comes as a bit of a,
00:37:12.13\00:37:14.13
bit of a surprise to
some, but I need you to see,
00:37:14.16\00:37:16.36
it's exactly what you just read.
00:37:16.40\00:37:17.80
And by the way, a little lady,
00:37:17.83\00:37:19.60
an American writer
named Ellen White Jones
00:37:19.63\00:37:20.97
right on this
bandwagon and she says,
00:37:21.00\00:37:22.64
long before N.T Wright,
this is what's happened.
00:37:22.67\00:37:25.21
Look at this, Ministry
of Healing, jot it down.
00:37:25.24\00:37:26.94
"With his own
blood Jesus has signed
00:37:26.98\00:37:29.91
the emancipation
papers of the race."
00:37:29.94\00:37:33.82
Remember 1869, January 1,
00:37:33.85\00:37:36.12
Abraham Lincoln signs
the emancipation proclamation
00:37:36.15\00:37:38.72
every slave in the United States
00:37:38.75\00:37:40.32
is hereby declared what?
00:37:40.36\00:37:42.19
Free. You are free to go.
00:37:42.22\00:37:44.39
And everybody didn't go,
didn't go free, you know why?
00:37:44.43\00:37:46.63
Because they didn't know.
00:37:46.66\00:37:48.00
Somebody has to
come and tell you.
00:37:48.03\00:37:49.93
You've been freed. All
this time you didn't know.
00:37:49.96\00:37:52.70
I have good news
for you. You are free.
00:37:52.73\00:37:57.97
Jesus signed the papers
for the entire human race.
00:37:58.01\00:38:01.21
We just got to get to
Him fast before He comes.
00:38:01.24\00:38:04.55
In another book
of her, she writes.
00:38:04.58\00:38:06.11
She even more
graphic here on the screen.
00:38:06.15\00:38:08.95
"Christ took in His grasp
00:38:08.98\00:38:11.19
the world over which
Satan claimed to preside
00:38:11.22\00:38:14.19
as his lawful territory,
00:38:14.22\00:38:15.76
and by Jesus' wonderful
work in giving His life,
00:38:15.79\00:38:18.63
He restored the
whole race of men and women
00:38:18.66\00:38:23.03
to favor with God."
00:38:23.06\00:38:24.70
Can you believe that?
00:38:24.73\00:38:26.07
The entire human race
has already been pardoned,
00:38:26.10\00:38:30.51
already been acquitted.
00:38:30.54\00:38:32.31
Your mission and mine is
first of all to discover that
00:38:32.34\00:38:34.74
for ourselves
that we get set free
00:38:34.78\00:38:36.21
and then find everybody we know.
00:38:36.24\00:38:37.58
"Hey, by the way do you
know that you're not bound.
00:38:37.61\00:38:39.31
You are not, you are
not a slave any longer.
00:38:39.35\00:38:41.72
Has anybody told you.
00:38:41.75\00:38:43.08
I'm telling you right
now, that's the deal."
00:38:43.12\00:38:46.05
What a God?
00:38:46.09\00:38:49.79
Two thousand years
ago, are you getting this?
00:38:49.82\00:38:52.93
It was all done 2000 years ago.
00:38:52.96\00:38:55.56
What did Jesus said on
the cross as He expired?
00:38:55.60\00:38:58.07
It is continuing?
00:38:58.10\00:39:01.40
Come on, it is almost over?
00:39:01.44\00:39:05.27
What did he say?
00:39:05.31\00:39:06.64
It is finished.
00:39:06.68\00:39:08.64
It was done 2000 years ago.
00:39:08.68\00:39:11.41
Do you know what that means?
00:39:11.45\00:39:12.78
Common, let just
soak this in for a moment.
00:39:12.81\00:39:14.68
You don't have to persuade God
to love you ever, ever, ever.
00:39:14.72\00:39:18.89
I loved you 2000 years ago.
00:39:18.92\00:39:20.39
You don't have to persuade God
00:39:20.42\00:39:21.76
to forgive you ever, ever, ever.
00:39:21.79\00:39:23.56
He said, "I forgave
you 2000 years ago."
00:39:23.59\00:39:25.26
You don't have to
persuade God to accept you.
00:39:25.29\00:39:27.43
He said, "I
accepted you 2000 years ago,
00:39:27.46\00:39:29.80
it's a done deal."
00:39:29.83\00:39:31.57
The only way it
can't be done for you
00:39:31.60\00:39:34.30
is if you refus to
have it done for you.
00:39:34.34\00:39:38.61
Let me do it.
00:39:38.64\00:39:40.11
Let me whisper to you the truth.
00:39:40.14\00:39:44.75
And I'll snatch you like that
burning stick out of the fire
00:39:44.78\00:39:47.98
and you're mine
forever girl, boy.
00:39:48.02\00:39:50.45
You're mine forever.
00:39:50.49\00:39:52.45
And when two
young men, 130 years ago
00:39:55.69\00:39:58.19
almost began to
preach this very teaching,
00:39:58.23\00:40:01.50
Ellen White was
absolutely jubilant.
00:40:01.53\00:40:04.83
Write it down, put
her words on the screen.
00:40:04.87\00:40:07.50
"The Lord in His great
mercy sent a most precious..."
00:40:07.54\00:40:12.77
Circle that, will you?
00:40:12.81\00:40:14.14
"Most precious
message to His people
00:40:14.18\00:40:19.78
through Pastors
Waggoner and Jones.
00:40:19.81\00:40:22.08
This message was to
bring more prominently
00:40:22.12\00:40:24.75
before the world."
00:40:24.79\00:40:26.19
We think that we
have this little internal,
00:40:26.22\00:40:28.26
internal teaching
that has to get out
00:40:28.29\00:40:29.62
to everybody
that thinks like me.
00:40:29.66\00:40:31.03
No, it's the whole
planet that needs to hear this.
00:40:31.06\00:40:32.79
Write it down.
00:40:32.83\00:40:34.16
It needed to... it must
be brought more prominently
00:40:34.20\00:40:36.43
before the world.
00:40:36.46\00:40:37.80
What?
00:40:37.83\00:40:39.17
"The uplifted Savior,
the sacrifice for the sins
00:40:39.20\00:40:41.07
of the whole world.
00:40:41.10\00:40:42.47
It presented justification..."
00:40:42.50\00:40:44.21
Oh, that law court
term that we just learned.
00:40:44.24\00:40:46.61
"It presented
justification through faith
00:40:46.64\00:40:48.44
in the Surety..."
00:40:48.48\00:40:49.81
That would be Jesus.
00:40:49.84\00:40:51.18
"It invited the people
this message to receive
00:40:51.21\00:40:52.55
the righteousness of
Christ, which is made manifest
00:40:52.58\00:40:55.38
in obedience to all
the commandments of God.
00:40:55.42\00:40:57.82
Many had lost sight of Jesus."
00:40:57.85\00:41:00.86
Jot that down.
00:41:00.89\00:41:02.32
"They needed to have their eyes
directed to His divine person,
00:41:05.66\00:41:08.66
His merits, His changeless
love for the human family."
00:41:08.70\00:41:12.63
I love this, "All power
is given into Christ's hands,
00:41:12.67\00:41:16.07
that He may dispense
rich gifts unto men and women,
00:41:16.10\00:41:19.17
imparting the priceless
gift of His own righteousness."
00:41:19.21\00:41:22.91
Do yourself a favor.
00:41:22.94\00:41:24.28
In that quotation,
right now circle those words,
00:41:24.31\00:41:25.75
"The priceless gift of
His own righteousness,"
00:41:25.78\00:41:29.08
that's what He gives to
the helpless human agent.
00:41:29.12\00:41:31.39
That would be you and me.
00:41:31.42\00:41:33.05
"This is the
message of God commanded
00:41:33.09\00:41:34.72
to be given to the world.
00:41:34.76\00:41:36.09
It is the third angel's message,
00:41:36.12\00:41:37.53
which is to be
proclaimed with a loud voice,
00:41:37.56\00:41:40.20
and attended with the
outpouring of His spirit
00:41:40.23\00:41:42.50
in a large measure."
00:41:42.53\00:41:46.80
Wow.
00:41:46.84\00:41:48.84
Some kind soul, a lady
00:41:48.87\00:41:52.14
on the West Coast,
00:41:52.17\00:41:54.38
unsolicited, I didn't
know her, still don't.
00:41:54.41\00:41:59.41
She sent me a
book through the mail.
00:41:59.45\00:42:01.92
I found it on the desk
when I came to church one day.
00:42:01.95\00:42:05.45
Title of the
book, Living by Faith,
00:42:05.49\00:42:10.33
a collection of
editorials by E.J. Waggoner,
00:42:10.36\00:42:13.09
the physician turned preacher
that with his partner Jones
00:42:13.13\00:42:18.33
brought this
most precious message.
00:42:18.37\00:42:20.67
As I read the 49
editorials in that book.
00:42:20.70\00:42:23.37
I came across
something I had never seen,
00:42:23.41\00:42:25.37
not from any
writer, not from any book.
00:42:25.41\00:42:27.61
A string of verses with
a stunning understanding
00:42:27.64\00:42:34.12
they provide of
how God's righteousness
00:42:34.15\00:42:37.19
can be operationalized.
00:42:37.22\00:42:38.72
How this, this theory
that we're talking about,
00:42:38.75\00:42:40.96
how it can become an
operation in your life.
00:42:40.99\00:42:42.86
And I've got to share this
with you before I sit down,
00:42:42.89\00:42:44.46
because you've never heard
of this before, I promise you.
00:42:44.49\00:42:47.03
Okay.
00:42:47.06\00:42:48.40
You gonna have to
jot these verses down.
00:42:48.43\00:42:49.76
Stunning string of
verses, here they come,
00:42:49.80\00:42:52.00
Romans 1:16, jot it down.
00:42:52.03\00:42:54.00
Paul says, "I am not
ashamed of the gospel,
00:42:54.04\00:42:56.24
because it is the power
of God that brings salvation
00:42:56.27\00:42:59.54
to everyone who believes power.
00:42:59.57\00:43:02.48
For in the gospel
00:43:02.51\00:43:03.85
the righteousness
of God is revealed."
00:43:03.88\00:43:05.71
So the power of God
and His righteousness
00:43:05.75\00:43:07.58
are all bound together.
00:43:07.62\00:43:08.95
All right here's a...
00:43:08.98\00:43:10.32
Here we go now,
here comes something,
00:43:10.35\00:43:11.79
Psalm 33, the
great Psalm you know it,
00:43:11.82\00:43:13.96
verses 6 and 9, jot it down,
00:43:13.99\00:43:16.22
"By the word of the Lord
were the heavens made..."
00:43:16.26\00:43:20.40
The word, did you get that?
00:43:20.43\00:43:22.00
The word, that's what comes
out of his mouth, the word.
00:43:22.03\00:43:24.17
"By the word of the Lord
where the heavens made..."
00:43:24.20\00:43:26.03
Let there be
light, let there be air,
00:43:26.07\00:43:27.44
let there be
birds, okay, the word.
00:43:27.47\00:43:29.77
"By the word of the
Lord were the heavens made,
00:43:29.80\00:43:32.54
their starry host by the,
by the breath of his mouth.
00:43:32.57\00:43:37.28
For he spoke, and it came to be,
00:43:37.31\00:43:39.11
he commanded,
and it stood firm."
00:43:39.15\00:43:42.32
The power of God
unleashed in the gospel
00:43:42.35\00:43:44.75
is unleashed to His
word, it's His very breathing.
00:43:44.79\00:43:47.29
When He speaks
and breathes the word,
00:43:47.32\00:43:49.66
something immediately happens.
00:43:49.69\00:43:52.19
One more text, now two more.
00:43:52.23\00:43:53.90
John 6, Jesus speaking here,
00:43:53.93\00:43:55.66
the actual divine
agent of creation, John 6:63.
00:43:55.70\00:43:59.53
"The words I
have spoken to you...
00:43:59.57\00:44:02.27
they are full of
Spirit and life."
00:44:02.30\00:44:06.41
My words will infuse life,
00:44:06.44\00:44:08.94
and spirit into
you I speak them.
00:44:08.98\00:44:11.58
One more text, 2 Timothy 3:16.
00:44:11.61\00:44:14.65
Oh, this is
something. "All scripture..."
00:44:14.68\00:44:16.82
How much of scripture?
How much of scripture?
00:44:16.85\00:44:18.69
"All scripture is God-breathed."
00:44:18.72\00:44:22.56
I should let you to savor
that thought for a moment?
00:44:22.59\00:44:25.03
"All scripture is God-breathed."
00:44:25.06\00:44:27.93
The N.I.V.
renders it, God breathed.
00:44:27.96\00:44:30.43
All scripture, all
God's word, God breathed,
00:44:33.44\00:44:37.41
by the breath of his
mouth universe is created.
00:44:37.44\00:44:41.48
Everything
happens through the word.
00:44:41.51\00:44:43.48
Everything happens with
what he breathes and speaks.
00:44:43.51\00:44:47.75
Notice how E.J. Waggoner
applies a string of verses.
00:44:47.78\00:44:50.59
Will put it on
the screen for you.
00:44:50.62\00:44:51.95
"When the word of
God names something,
00:44:51.99\00:44:54.12
then the thing
that is named is formed.
00:44:54.16\00:44:56.79
Whatever is
described by the word,
00:44:56.83\00:44:58.53
exists in that word.
00:44:58.56\00:45:00.80
And this is a very unique,
00:45:00.83\00:45:02.43
I'd never
thought of this before,
00:45:02.46\00:45:03.87
"Thus it is
impossible for God to lie,
00:45:03.90\00:45:06.27
for His word
makes the thing so."
00:45:06.30\00:45:09.17
So if we all got
up, come on, come on.
00:45:09.20\00:45:10.54
We all got up
and we went outside
00:45:10.57\00:45:12.01
and God was
with us, and He says,
00:45:12.04\00:45:13.38
"Hey, guys, I want you to
see the chartreuse colored sky."
00:45:13.41\00:45:15.94
Guess what... guess
what color the sky would be?
00:45:15.98\00:45:18.71
Chartreuse because he
said it, He's not gonna lie.
00:45:18.75\00:45:21.42
So if it's
chartreuse, it's chartreuse.
00:45:21.45\00:45:23.18
What he speaks is.
00:45:23.22\00:45:26.76
So God looks at you and
He says, "You know what?
00:45:26.79\00:45:28.72
You are now righteous."
00:45:28.76\00:45:30.63
Guess what? You
are now righteous.
00:45:30.66\00:45:34.03
God looks at you,
He looks in your heart,
00:45:34.06\00:45:35.60
He looks at what
you did last week.
00:45:35.63\00:45:36.97
And you've come to him.
He says, "You know what girl?
00:45:37.00\00:45:39.27
You are cleansed
and pure. Guess what?
00:45:39.30\00:45:42.90
You are now cleansed and pure,
He speaks it, you become it.
00:45:42.94\00:45:49.08
He speaks it, you become it.
00:45:49.11\00:45:52.25
So Jesus looks
at this paralytic,
00:45:52.28\00:45:54.08
lower down through the
hole in the roof and He says,
00:45:54.12\00:45:56.28
"Son, your sins are forgiven."
00:45:56.32\00:45:59.35
Boom, they're forgiven,
00:45:59.39\00:46:00.72
and a glow spreads
across his face why?
00:46:00.76\00:46:03.09
Because when you speak the word,
00:46:03.12\00:46:04.46
when the divine speaks the word,
00:46:04.49\00:46:05.83
what's in the word happens.
00:46:05.86\00:46:07.70
And then Jesus says, "I know
00:46:07.73\00:46:09.06
you don't believe I can do this.
00:46:09.10\00:46:10.43
I know you don't believe I
can do this, but watch this.
00:46:10.47\00:46:11.80
Take up your bed and walk."
00:46:11.83\00:46:13.17
And the boy takes
up his bed and walk.
00:46:13.20\00:46:14.54
He says, "See, I can do it."
00:46:14.57\00:46:15.90
One word, one word makes
00:46:15.94\00:46:18.51
all the difference in the world.
00:46:18.54\00:46:20.41
His word, His word is
what makes a difference.
00:46:20.44\00:46:25.85
And when He speaks
it to you, you got it.
00:46:25.88\00:46:29.38
Oh, I suppose you could say,
"No, I don't want that word.
00:46:29.42\00:46:31.19
No, don't touch
me with that word."
00:46:31.22\00:46:33.56
Well, he won't.
00:46:33.59\00:46:35.62
But if you receive
that word just like that,
00:46:35.66\00:46:38.96
what the word represents
00:46:38.99\00:46:40.56
happens as
reality in your heart.
00:46:40.60\00:46:42.70
Oh, my "By the word of the
Lord were the heavens made,
00:46:42.73\00:46:46.20
and their starry host by
the breath of his mouth."
00:46:46.23\00:46:49.40
Which means that when
the judge of the universe
00:46:49.44\00:46:51.47
convenes his
courtroom, and He looks at you,
00:46:51.51\00:46:53.58
and He says, "You are justified.
00:46:53.61\00:46:55.51
You are acquitted,
pardoned, all charges drop.
00:46:55.54\00:46:58.85
Guess what?
00:46:58.88\00:47:00.22
You are justified,
acquitted, pardoned.
00:47:00.25\00:47:01.95
All charges drop."
00:47:01.98\00:47:03.35
When He says it, it
is for the Lord spake
00:47:03.39\00:47:08.46
and it was so.
00:47:08.49\00:47:10.36
Jesus says, "For
the words I speak,
00:47:10.39\00:47:12.43
they are spirit and life."
00:47:12.46\00:47:16.03
You don't believe that
about Jesus, one more text.
00:47:16.06\00:47:18.03
Hebrews 1:3.
00:47:18.07\00:47:19.77
"The Son is the
radiance of God's glory
00:47:19.80\00:47:22.60
and the exact representation..."
00:47:22.64\00:47:24.17
That means the
Son and the Father,
00:47:24.21\00:47:25.87
eternal as they are.
00:47:25.91\00:47:27.24
They share that same character.
00:47:27.28\00:47:29.34
Exact
representation of his being.
00:47:29.38\00:47:30.88
What does the son do?
00:47:30.91\00:47:32.25
He sustains all
things by his powerful word.
00:47:32.28\00:47:35.18
Write that down.
00:47:35.22\00:47:36.55
That's how powerful
is righteousness of God.
00:47:36.58\00:47:39.42
Because when you ask
him for it, He speaks it.
00:47:39.45\00:47:42.92
You have it.
00:47:42.96\00:47:45.49
Waggoner is absolutely
right, "The breath of God,
00:47:45.53\00:47:48.40
which has creative energy in it,
00:47:48.43\00:47:49.96
is that which
gives us the precepts
00:47:50.00\00:47:51.67
and promises of the Bible.
00:47:51.70\00:47:53.70
That creative word is
the power of the Gospel.
00:47:53.74\00:47:56.91
That word is the
power of the Gospel.
00:47:56.94\00:47:58.64
The power of redemption
is the power of creation,
00:47:58.67\00:48:02.74
for redemption is creation."
00:48:02.78\00:48:05.91
Come on, if any
woman is in Christ,
00:48:05.95\00:48:07.72
if any man is in
Christ, he is a new what?
00:48:07.75\00:48:10.29
He is a new creation.
Old things have passed away.
00:48:10.32\00:48:12.85
With the word old
things have passed away,
00:48:12.89\00:48:15.02
behold, all things become new.
00:48:15.06\00:48:16.93
It's in the word.
00:48:16.96\00:48:18.29
When He speaks the word,
and you receive the word.
00:48:18.33\00:48:22.36
You got what he just spoke.
00:48:22.40\00:48:24.93
What He spake and it was done.
00:48:27.80\00:48:30.04
He commanded and it stood fast.
00:48:30.07\00:48:32.61
You know what that means.
00:48:32.64\00:48:34.68
We just got to believe.
00:48:34.71\00:48:36.31
We have to believe His word.
00:48:36.34\00:48:41.28
In that mustard seed of faith,
00:48:41.32\00:48:44.49
what his word has promised,
you got it, you got it.
00:48:44.52\00:48:48.92
Now watch where Waggoner,
now, now watch, watch this,
00:48:48.96\00:48:51.16
it's very, this
is, this is crucial.
00:48:51.19\00:48:54.20
Watch where Waggoner goes
with this line of reasoning.
00:48:54.23\00:48:56.93
On the screen again.
00:48:56.97\00:48:58.30
"To declare is to
speak, so when God declares
00:48:58.33\00:49:01.30
His righteousness in Christ
for the remission of sins."
00:49:01.34\00:49:04.01
We just read that Romans 3:25.
00:49:04.04\00:49:05.94
"Righteousness is
spoken into and on you,
00:49:05.97\00:49:08.01
to take the place of your
sins, which are taken away.
00:49:08.04\00:49:10.21
And now, here, here comes.
00:49:10.25\00:49:11.81
"It is not simply a
passive righteousness
00:49:11.85\00:49:14.82
that is declared on you,
00:49:14.85\00:49:16.18
but the real,
active righteousness,
00:49:16.22\00:49:19.02
for the word of
the Lord is alive,
00:49:19.05\00:49:20.76
and God's righteousness
is real and active."
00:49:20.79\00:49:23.12
Dwight, what in the
world did he just say.
00:49:23.16\00:49:25.33
I need you to catch this,
00:49:25.36\00:49:26.70
because what he
just said is this.
00:49:26.73\00:49:28.06
Quietly Jones and Waggoner was
what God asked them to teach.
00:49:28.10\00:49:32.17
Quietly they have veered away
00:49:32.20\00:49:35.60
from the
traditional understanding
00:49:35.64\00:49:38.27
that N. T. Wright represents.
00:49:38.31\00:49:40.08
Because here's
what N. T. Wright says,
00:49:40.11\00:49:41.64
what justification is about?
00:49:41.68\00:49:43.24
Change of
status, no change inside,
00:49:43.28\00:49:45.08
but a change of status.
00:49:45.11\00:49:46.45
But God raised up
two young preachers
00:49:46.48\00:49:50.35
to begin to teach.
00:49:50.39\00:49:51.72
No, no, no, no,
that's not what's there.
00:49:51.75\00:49:54.86
That along with
the change of status
00:49:54.89\00:49:59.56
is the unleashing of power.
00:49:59.59\00:50:03.03
Now, hold on, hold on.
00:50:03.06\00:50:06.13
Hans LaRondelle, one
of my revered professors
00:50:06.17\00:50:09.94
when I was in the seminary here,
00:50:09.97\00:50:11.31
sleeps in Jesus now.
00:50:11.34\00:50:13.01
That man's teaching
00:50:13.04\00:50:15.14
brought a
crisis in my own faith,
00:50:15.18\00:50:16.58
and that's how I found
Christ as a young adult.
00:50:16.61\00:50:19.41
Hans LaRondelle in his book,
00:50:19.45\00:50:22.68
Christ Our Salvation what
God does for us, and in us
00:50:22.72\00:50:25.69
supports this very point.
00:50:25.72\00:50:27.36
Put his words on a screen.
00:50:27.39\00:50:28.72
"However, justification implies
00:50:28.76\00:50:31.49
more than a mere
legal transaction.
00:50:31.53\00:50:35.03
The righteousness of
Christ is a transforming power."
00:50:35.06\00:50:38.70
Jot that down, transforming.
00:50:38.73\00:50:40.54
It is a principle,
according to Desire of Ages now.
00:50:40.57\00:50:42.70
"It is a principle
of life that transforms
00:50:42.74\00:50:44.77
the character and
controls the conduct."
00:50:44.81\00:50:47.81
Now LaRondelle, goes on.
00:50:47.84\00:50:49.21
"Many have too abstract
00:50:49.24\00:50:51.08
and narrow a view of forgiveness
00:50:51.11\00:50:53.28
and justification.
00:50:53.31\00:50:54.65
This led E.G. White to state:
Quoting now Mount of Blessing.
00:50:54.68\00:50:58.69
"God's forgiveness is
not merely a judicial act
00:50:58.72\00:51:01.86
by which He sets us
free from condemnation.
00:51:01.89\00:51:03.96
It is not only
forgiveness for sin,
00:51:03.99\00:51:06.59
but reclaiming from sin.
00:51:06.63\00:51:08.86
It is the
outflow of redeeming love
00:51:08.90\00:51:10.90
that transforms the heart."
00:51:10.93\00:51:13.03
This most
precious message unleashed
00:51:16.24\00:51:20.51
in the midst of this
tiny little faith community
00:51:20.54\00:51:22.38
but to go to the world.
00:51:22.41\00:51:23.75
What is this
message, the message that.
00:51:23.78\00:51:25.61
You know what the
righteousness of God
00:51:25.65\00:51:28.08
is not only, it is not
only a change in your status
00:51:28.12\00:51:30.85
when God justified you.
00:51:30.89\00:51:32.22
It doesn't say,
not only does he say,
00:51:32.25\00:51:34.29
"Charges drop, you're acquitted,
00:51:34.32\00:51:35.66
you're forgiven."
00:51:35.69\00:51:37.03
But with the
word that he speaks.
00:51:37.06\00:51:39.03
Just as he did with a paralytic.
00:51:39.06\00:51:40.40
He not only spoke
the word of forgiveness.
00:51:40.43\00:51:42.93
But the word right
behind it is a word be healed,
00:51:42.96\00:51:47.07
be changed.
00:51:47.10\00:51:48.44
Let my righteousness
come in. Let me transform you.
00:51:48.47\00:51:52.27
That's what he's saying.
00:51:52.31\00:51:54.68
How did Jesus put it.
00:51:54.71\00:51:56.28
The words that I speak to you
00:51:56.31\00:51:57.65
are full of the Spirit...
00:51:57.68\00:51:59.21
in life.
00:52:02.15\00:52:04.15
With one word, He pardons us.
00:52:04.19\00:52:06.05
And with the next
word He empowers us.
00:52:06.09\00:52:08.99
The forgiven
and healed paralytic
00:52:09.02\00:52:11.03
just like that man
when we receive that gift.
00:52:11.06\00:52:17.77
Both the power and
the pardon are bestowed
00:52:17.80\00:52:21.77
in the gift of
that righteousness.
00:52:21.80\00:52:23.47
By the way, David in
that great prayer of his,
00:52:23.51\00:52:25.67
put it on the
screen for you, Psalm 103.
00:52:25.71\00:52:27.54
David is absolutely clear that
00:52:27.58\00:52:28.98
the two go together, watch this.
00:52:29.01\00:52:30.35
Bless the Lord, let's
read this out loud together.
00:52:30.38\00:52:32.25
"Bless the Lord, O my soul,
00:52:32.28\00:52:35.05
and forget not all his benefits,
00:52:35.08\00:52:37.22
who forgives all your sins
and heals all your diseases."
00:52:37.25\00:52:42.76
You see the word
that speaks of pardon
00:52:42.79\00:52:45.89
is a word that speaks power
00:52:45.93\00:52:47.83
and with the
forgiveness comes the healing.
00:52:47.86\00:52:50.07
All happens.
00:52:50.10\00:52:51.60
One God, one gift,
00:52:51.63\00:52:55.44
His righteousness,
Christ, our righteousness.
00:52:55.47\00:53:00.28
Oh my, oh my...
00:53:00.31\00:53:04.38
My hope is built on nothing
00:53:04.41\00:53:08.95
less than Jesus' blood
00:53:08.98\00:53:13.05
and righteousness.
00:53:13.09\00:53:16.56
"I dare not trust
the sweetest frame,
00:53:16.59\00:53:20.40
But wholly lean on Jesus' name.
00:53:20.43\00:53:26.27
On Christ, the
solid Rock, I stand,
00:53:26.30\00:53:29.34
All other ground
is sinking sand."
00:53:29.37\00:53:32.81
All other ground,
00:53:32.84\00:53:34.81
all other
ground is sinking sand.
00:53:34.84\00:53:38.48
And to that I say,
hallelujah and amen.
00:53:38.51\00:53:42.32
What do you say?
00:53:42.35\00:53:43.69
Amen. Amen.
00:53:43.72\00:53:45.05
Pull out your
connect card please.
00:53:45.09\00:53:47.06
It's in your worship bulletin.
00:53:47.09\00:53:48.52
Guests from around
the Great Lakes States
00:53:48.56\00:53:51.43
delighted that you're here.
00:53:51.46\00:53:52.79
Pull out your connect card.
00:53:52.83\00:53:55.36
We must respond to
this. We do this every week.
00:53:55.40\00:53:57.83
Put your name,
e-mail address on a front.
00:53:57.87\00:54:00.04
Let's go. Go to the back.
00:54:00.07\00:54:01.67
My next step, I confess,
here it is box number one,
00:54:01.70\00:54:04.51
I confess that I am a sinner.
00:54:04.54\00:54:06.74
And I choose daily
to receive God's offer
00:54:06.78\00:54:09.44
to exchange my filthy rags
00:54:09.48\00:54:11.81
for Christ's spotless
robe of righteousness.
00:54:11.85\00:54:16.35
Do you want that to
borrow? I want that every day.
00:54:16.38\00:54:19.35
You guys every
day when I wake up,
00:54:19.39\00:54:20.72
that's what I want.
00:54:20.76\00:54:22.09
I want to get the filthy
rags from yesterday off of me,
00:54:22.12\00:54:24.19
get them off of me.
00:54:24.23\00:54:25.56
Put that robe back
on me, I want that robe.
00:54:25.59\00:54:27.96
Every day, I hope we all
can put that check mark there.
00:54:28.00\00:54:30.87
Now, look at box number two.
00:54:30.90\00:54:32.50
I would like to be
baptized into Jesus Christ,
00:54:32.53\00:54:34.97
my Savior and my righteousness.
00:54:35.00\00:54:37.51
You may be older than Davey.
00:54:37.54\00:54:39.97
And by the way, was that a
beautiful testimony or what?
00:54:40.01\00:54:42.54
Amen.
00:54:42.58\00:54:43.91
Man a little
child shall lead them,
00:54:43.95\00:54:45.38
that's what was
happening right there.
00:54:45.41\00:54:47.22
I want to share this he said,
when I, when I go into Jesus.
00:54:47.25\00:54:50.39
And I'm baptizing him I
want to share with the world.
00:54:50.42\00:54:52.65
Did he say, seven
billion he's going to reach.
00:54:52.69\00:54:56.32
You go Davey, dream big for God.
00:54:56.36\00:54:59.06
He's sending you
to the world, boy.
00:54:59.09\00:55:01.06
He's already got a plan for you.
00:55:01.10\00:55:02.66
Like Davey, you may
never been baptized before,
00:55:02.70\00:55:04.73
you maybe older
than him, who cares.
00:55:04.77\00:55:06.70
It's time for you to get
baptized into Jesus Christ,
00:55:06.74\00:55:10.24
your Savior and
your righteousness.
00:55:10.27\00:55:12.47
Nothing will do it like baptism,
00:55:12.51\00:55:13.98
nothing will do it like baptism.
00:55:14.01\00:55:15.68
That's why right after Romans 5,
00:55:15.71\00:55:18.25
Romans 6 is all about baptism.
00:55:18.28\00:55:19.95
Right after Romans 5,
Paul says let's talk about,
00:55:19.98\00:55:21.95
let's talk about
getting baptized.
00:55:21.98\00:55:23.32
If you have not been baptized,
00:55:23.35\00:55:25.35
would you take
this moment right now,
00:55:25.39\00:55:26.72
and put a check mark there.
00:55:26.76\00:55:29.06
We were just praising God
00:55:29.09\00:55:30.96
with how many made
the decision last Sabbath,
00:55:30.99\00:55:33.93
to put a check mark for baptism.
00:55:33.96\00:55:36.46
I wonder how many here today.
00:55:36.50\00:55:38.80
You're up here and
you're not even a member here,
00:55:38.83\00:55:40.37
you put a check mark
there, just turn that card
00:55:40.40\00:55:42.20
in just one second.
00:55:42.24\00:55:43.77
And we'll get to whoever
needs to know that information.
00:55:43.81\00:55:49.14
If you have not been baptized
00:55:49.18\00:55:51.61
today's the day
to make the decision.
00:55:51.65\00:55:54.48
It's your timetable.
Put a check mark there.
00:55:54.52\00:55:56.75
Oh, by the way box number three.
00:55:56.79\00:55:58.15
I will pray for
the mission to Cuba.
00:55:58.19\00:55:59.89
You see the dates
there, this Friday night
00:55:59.92\00:56:01.56
30 seminarians will
be preaching in Santiago,
00:56:01.59\00:56:04.23
the second biggest city in Cuba.
00:56:04.26\00:56:05.86
Pray for us please for ten days,
00:56:05.89\00:56:09.03
as we preach the
third angel's message.
00:56:09.06\00:56:12.77
Let's pray. Oh, God.
00:56:12.80\00:56:16.44
Went into little overtime
here, but because father this,
00:56:16.47\00:56:19.07
this can't be cut up,
this is a standalone truth
00:56:19.11\00:56:22.08
and we needed to hear it.
00:56:22.11\00:56:23.55
Some of us are desperate
to know this good news.
00:56:23.58\00:56:27.18
Assure every man,
woman, young, adult,
00:56:27.22\00:56:29.05
teenager and child here
are watching live streaming,
00:56:29.08\00:56:33.29
or anywhere on the
planet through television
00:56:33.32\00:56:35.09
assure all of us that
the news really is this good.
00:56:35.12\00:56:40.43
Two thousand years ago,
00:56:40.46\00:56:41.86
You dropped charges
on the entire human race.
00:56:41.90\00:56:44.67
We've all been
forgiven, we've been acquitted.
00:56:44.70\00:56:47.07
We have been declared free.
00:56:47.10\00:56:50.51
Why would we go on living
00:56:50.54\00:56:52.37
as if we're in bondage
when you declared us free?
00:56:52.41\00:56:55.91
And so, Father, we
must first experience it
00:56:55.94\00:56:58.15
or it's not good news.
00:56:58.18\00:56:59.65
But once we know it,
send us into the world
00:56:59.68\00:57:02.82
to people who need to
know this life liberating truth
00:57:02.85\00:57:08.29
in Christ Jesus,
00:57:08.32\00:57:10.63
that's where our
hope is built on.
00:57:10.66\00:57:12.09
Yes, in Christ we pray, amen.
00:57:12.13\00:57:18.17
I want to take an extra movement
00:57:18.20\00:57:19.53
and let you know,
how grateful I am,
00:57:19.57\00:57:20.90
you joined us today.
00:57:20.94\00:57:22.27
I hear from viewers
and listeners like you,
00:57:22.30\00:57:24.41
all across this nation,
and literally around the world,
00:57:24.44\00:57:27.08
and I'm thankful,
00:57:27.11\00:57:28.48
because it's through the
generosity of the members
00:57:28.51\00:57:30.11
of this
congregation and people like you
00:57:30.15\00:57:31.98
that we're able to
bring you this program.
00:57:32.01\00:57:34.42
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00:57:34.45\00:57:36.48
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Either way, your
generosity will bless
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a new generation in
cyberspace all over this planet.
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So thank you.
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Thank you very much
for your partnership.
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